Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series

by LucasArts

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00002SV6D
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,125 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Star Wars fans, listen up. If you missed out on LucasArts's X-Wing or TIE Fighter simulations when they first appeared, it's time to make amends. These classic games from the days of DOS have been given a complete makeover, updated with enhanced graphics, and now run under Windows 95 and 98. X-Wing Collector Series contains both of these Collector editions in a single box, along with a demo CD-ROM containing X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: Flight School, and offers them all at a price that should be well within anyone's entertainment budget.

Entertained is what you'll be once you've installed these games. X-Wing lets players pilot A-wings, Y-wings, B-wings, and (of course) X-wings in dozens of missions against the evil Empire. Although Rebel ships have the advantage of being equipped with shields, don't expect any mercy--the game is infamous for containing some of the toughest missions of all time.

TIE Fighter turns the tables by letting players work their way up in the Imperial ranks. Several types of TIE ships are modeled, from the ungainly TIE bomber to the incredibly agile TIE defender. In both games the controls are about as perfect as they can get in a game of this type, and campaign missions play out with convincing voice acting and great plot twists. The graphics pale in comparison to a newer game like X-Wing: Alliance, but there's so much gameplay in these CD-ROMs that we barely had time to notice. --T. Byrl Baker

Pros:

• A few hundred fun, challenging missions to play through
• Many different ships
• Sound effects and music straight out of the movies
• Perfectly captures the excitement and feel of Star Wars

Cons:

• Updated graphics still don't look as good as those found in modern space simulators

Product Description

Take control of the universe's finest spacecraft collection of 3 award-winning Star Wars space combat games. You can fly beginner, intermediate or advanced levels and feel like you truly become part of the adventure. Includes authentic filmscore, realistic sound effects and full motion cinematic framing sequences.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Many a college year wasted...sigh..., March 29, 2000

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"lylec" (Lebanon, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series (CD-ROM)

I remember playing TIE fighter for hours when in college. Hands down one of the best games available for any computer.

The missions are designed to be difficult enough to make you try multiple times, yet I never felt the need to throw the computer out the window because I just couldn't beat that one superhard level.

For Star Wars fans, many familiar characters appear in the game such as Mon Mothma and Darth Vader (when you are a good enough pilot, you are Vader's wing man for a mission).

One of those games I play and replay. Easy to get wrapped up in and really feel like you are there. There is a reason why many critics consider this one of the best PC games ever. I think I'll get off the net and play it right now!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Classics in One Box!, May 25, 2000

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Matt Southerland - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series (CD-ROM)

I've bought the X-Wing collector's CD and also the TIE Fighter one. I've beat the Tours of Duty two or three times on both games. And now I bought this a few months back. Man these two games are simply some of the best stuff to ever be released onto the PC. Replayability is high. I've logged so many hours and shot down so many spacecraft over the years, and I still can't get enough(even my joystick finally broke). I don't care if there are at least a hundred missions on each CD, I still want more!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An ageless game, May 24, 2005

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Russell L. Callaham - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series (CD-ROM)

I bought this game for my 486 years ago, back when the game had to be installed from a floppy diskette. The gameplay is second to none. No game since this one has kept me up at night, formulating different strategies in order to succeed in a previous mission failure. The amount of detail in this game blows my mind comparing it to other, more "asthetically pleasing" modern games. The level of difficulty is very, very high; however, I never became so frustrated as to give up, only to try harder. Hands down, my favorite videogame of all-time. This one even tops Diablo II, folks.